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You can put them in your library/desk to impress your friends
by diegolo 7y ago
You can put them in your library/desk to impress your friends
- silverdemon 7y agoI keep mine in clear view on the shelf in the hope that its collected wisdom will radiate outward and suffuse into my code. Not happened yet, but perhaps it has a useful psychological effect as a shrine to algorithms; whenever I am tempted by a quick, cheap hack I see the books and am steered back to the righteous path. Actually I usually just do the cheap hack anyway but it is reassuring to know that it is there.